Not everything about computers and software these days is related to packaging, but a lot is. How can users acquire software faster and run it more easily? How should software be packaged up so that we can run it wherever we like? How do we resolve the tensions between the siren song of public cloud convenience and open source freedom and flexibility? In From Pots and Vats to Programs and Apps: How Software Learned to Package Itself, Red Hatters Gordon...
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